Quotes About Comedy

I'm gonna hump ya. Like Deputy Dog... Would hump ya.

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

I'm happy to start on one topic and end on another one entirely, as long as it's funny.

The internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

A member of the committee slapped a name tag over my left bosom. "What shall we name the other one?" I smiled. She was not amused.

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

The food on the plane was fit for a king. "Here, King!"

A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.

Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.